Oct. 30, 2018
04:30 am JST

Who cares about what she does anyway? Obviously she was insecure person and lost self confidence. She had a mental illness in the past. I won't be surprised if she converted again to Judaism in the next year. Good luck with Islam.

Oct. 28, 2018
04:52 pm JST

FGM is practised in 30 countries---27 African (including Egypt} and Iraqi Kurdistan and Yemen. Also Indonesia although an Indonesian Woman of my aquaintance tells me that often it is not more than a symbolic scratch to comply with Islamic tradition. An estimated 200 million women have undergone the procedures. Even in the UK and Australia it is practiced although against the law. Parents are known to take their daughters overseas to have them "done" It seems to be a fact that it is only practiced by people of the Islamic faith but no doubt there are those who believe that it has nothing at all to do with Islam

Oct. 28, 2018
02:28 pm JST

Yusef Islam and Muhammad Ali are male and therefore have fragile egos and a need to dominate according to you.

Perhaps that’s why they joined an Abrahamic faith which gives men an extraordinarily privileged position. As far as I know, not a single Mosque in the UK allows women to lead prayers.

I seem to remember reading about extraordinary hostility to Ali’s conversion to Islam. I remember Yusef Islam got into trouble for agreeing with a death penalty for a novelist. I hope Shuhada doesn’t adopt those ideas.

Oct. 28, 2018
08:39 am JST

Good on ye, Sinead. Just keep on making great music and sod the begrudgers.

Still and more seriously, Shuhada has had to do all her soul searching and dealing with family strife in public. She's been searching for a path for decades and I hope she's finally found happiness.

I remember seeing her live in 1986/87, Dave Fanning came on stage to introduce her and we were blown away by her raw, uncompromising talent. Mandinka had captured people's imagination and the poetry and power evident on The Lion and the Cobra was something magical.

Oh and Sinead is not mad. She's angry - as many of us are - with the crap the world throws at us.

Oct. 28, 2018
08:22 am JST

Oct. 28, 2018
07:51 am JST

Ah_soOct. 27 07:21 pm JSTIt will be interesting to hear whether or not she will go the whole hog and undergo the FGM procedure.

There is nothing Islamic about FGM. It is practiced in a small number of East African communities that happen to be Islamic, but that happens entirely independently of Islam.

You could argue that both subjugate women in one way or other, or perhaps that women are more subjugated in Islamic countries than non-Islamic countries, so FGM is more likely to be found in an Islamic country.

Anyway, I doubt Sinead will be getting cut.

And it's the same with the hijab (head scarf). I've met Muslim women who wear one, and some who don't. That has more to do with locality as well. Somalian women tend to wear those more than European Balkan Muslim women do, or even Arabian.

Oct. 27, 2018
10:39 pm JST

Oct. 27, 2018
10:17 pm JST

There is nothing Islamic about FGM.

It is regarded as a good thing in the Hadiths. It certainly isn’t unique to Islam, but to say there is nothing Islamic about it isn’t accurate. It is carried out by some because of its endorsement in the scriptures.

Oct. 27, 2018
07:21 pm JST

It will be interesting to hear whether or not she will go the whole hog and undergo the FGM procedure.

There is nothing Islamic about FGM. It is practiced in a small number of East African communities that happen to be Islamic, but that happens entirely independently of Islam.

You could argue that both subjugate women in one way or other, or perhaps that women are more subjugated in Islamic countries than non-Islamic countries, so FGM is more likely to be found in an Islamic country.

Oct. 27, 2018
04:14 pm JST

Oct. 27, 2018
02:47 pm JST

Well, back in the day I loved her music, wasn’t my favorite artist, but she does have some talent, all I can say is with all the personal and emotional problems she’s had over the years I’m happy she’s found some peace and if it’s Islam, it’s ok, better than going through depression and like so many other musicians from the past killing themselves for a multitude of reason. Wish her the best.